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next operation, and may, at the distance of a few 
days, be repeated with advantage. ‘lhe weeds will 
now re-appear, when the triangular harrow, accom- 
modated to the width of the intervals, must be em- 
ployed. This; drawn by a single horse, will do its 
work expeditiously and well. The plough called the 
cultivator, with a double mould board, follows the 
harrow, and is itself followed by the hand hoe, which 
alone can perform well the last and great operation 
of filling the corn. The first effect of this is to ena- 
ble the grain to form new joints near the surface ‘of 
the earth, whence will issue lateral roots, fitted to 
receive an additional quantity of aliment necessary 
or proper for the plant.(1) Care must however be 
taken to flatten these little mounds of earth; so as to 
make them better recipients of water. 
Corn is sometimes cultivated with a view only to 
the forage it may yield; in which case it is generally 
sown broad-cast, at the rate of ten bushels to the acre, 
and cut’ green, while its saccharine qualities most 
abound. We are told by Mr. Bosc, that in thie vol- 
canic soil of Vicenteri, in Italy, corn managed in this 
way, gives four crops in the year. Asa dry forage, 
it isa great resource in warm climates, where natu- 
ral meadows are rare, and artificial nearly unknown: 
In the eastern parts of Virginia, it furnishes the prin- 
cipal stock of horse fodder; and in our northern lat- 
titudes, is a useful supplement to clover, timothy 
and red-top hay. Baie 
(1) Bonnet was the first to make this observation, but if the reader wishes to seea 
full illustration of it, we refer him to the memoir of M. Varennes de Fenillis, whe 
has proved, tbat the crop is increased 1-13th merely by hilling. 
